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Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.

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 Meanings and Examples of PACKED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
packed
 a.  crowded to capacity; compressed
Classic Sentence: (185 in 13 pages)
1  The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  On the bed lay the apple-green, watered-silk ball dress with its festoons of ecru lace, neatly packed in a large cardboard box.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Every chair in the house was occupied, and even the long winding stair was packed with guests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  The whole town had turned out to see them off and they stood, close packed, under the wooden awnings of the stores on Peachtree Street and tried to cheer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  They passed Aunt Pitty's house, jolting over the bumpy road, packed with wounded and dying men, dripping blood into the red dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  She pushed her way swiftly through the crowds, past the packed, hysterical mob surging in the open space of Five Points, and hurried as fast as she could down the short block toward the depot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  The hurrying lines pushed her back onto the packed sidewalk and she smelled the reek of cheap corn whisky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  Hand at her mouth, she stared while Melanie packed a fresh towel against his shoulder, pressing it hard as though she could force back the blood into his body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  The house was packed with guests.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
11  Lily had never seen her when she was not cuirassed in shining black, with small tight boots, and an air of being packed and ready to start; yet she never started.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  The rooms were packed with the gazing throng which, in the afternoon hours, trickles heavily between the tables, like the Sunday crowd in a lion-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
13  He had one of his worst attacks this morning, and I packed him off to see the doctor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
15  They clumped out to the livery buggy, they packed the kit and the box of lunch into the back, crying to each other that it was a magnificent day.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  Ensure all photographic material is properly packed and sent by recorded delivery.
17  Once the last boxes were packed away, he was overtaken by a wave of tiredness.
18  We simply publish catalogues six times a year, packed with quality books at bargain prices.
19  His speech packed quite a punch.
20  Our special supplement is packed with inspirational ideas for healthy and glamorous hair.
21  A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.
22  In our yard ground covered with wet, heavily packed leaves.
23  I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground -- hard packed, and no boards.
24  You're the houn' I'm after, and I'm a-gwyne to have you, too!" And so he went on, calling Sherburn everything he could lay his tongue to, and the whole street packed with people listening and laughing and going on.
25  Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity.
26  The sac is filled with foam blocks that arrive all packed tight.
27  Silica gel is most commonly encountered in everyday life as beads packed in a semi-permeable plastic.
28  For all the attention garnered by 4K TVs, the show floors were packed with more sensor-embedded gadgets than ever before.
29  So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
30  My parents used to pack us off to camp every summer.